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Haitink, who had been conductor of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam for more than twenty years, led the BSO in a performance of the Prelude to the First Act of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnburg, the Sibelius Violin Concerto, and Brahms' First Symphony. Kremer joined the orchestra as soloist in the concerto...
...compositions attempted by Igor Stravinsky at the same time--his were far more exploratory in chord structure and overall form. Shostakovich's jazz embodies a kind of ethereal chintz that might call to mind, on first listening, the London compact disc, Riccardo Chailly and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam attempt to bring forth that light naivete in all of its utter inocuousness...
...films could come near the breadth and gusto, the sheer comic wallop, of Pulp Fiction. This 2 1/2-hour tapestry weaves four tales into a meditation about tough guys with too much or too little time on their hands. What do you talk about before a killing? (Fast food in Amsterdam.) How do you escape a fate worse than death? (With luck and honor.) How do you date your gang boss's wife? (Very carefully.) How do you remove those telltale blood stains from the backseat? (Very quickly.) Spinning delirious variations on familiar film noir conventions and pulling career-best performances...
...shame on Zionism and an embarrassment to Judaism. A single, straight line connects the lunatics and racists of the entire world. A single line of blood and terrorism runs from the Islamic Holy War member who shot Jewish worshippers who stood in prayer in the synagogues of Istanbul, Paris, Amsterdam and Rome, to the Jewish Hamas member who shot Ramadan worshippers...
Every museum that proudly displays a Van Gogh has reason to be nervous. Curators in Amsterdam, preparing a definitive catalog for publication in the year 2001, have concluded that around 50 of the world's 900-odd Van Gogh's, or one in every 230, are forged or misattributed. Among the fakes identified so far: a seascape in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek in Copenhagen and a self- portrait in the Austrian National Galley in Vienna...